Improvement in guide for sewing-machine



G. w. WELLS.

Sewing-Machine Guide. No. 91,292. Patented June 15, 1869.

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G. W. WELLS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 91,292, dated June 15, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. WELLS, of the city f Washington, District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement on the Cloth-Presser of the Sewing-Machine; and i do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification.

,In the patent granted and now used by the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company, consisting of an improvement in the clothpresser, there is the want of a guide when the fabric is held in a certain direction. My said invention, among other things, is intended to obviate this difficulty, and can be constructed so as to be used in the holder that now holds the glass slides of said improvement above mentioned.

To enable others skilled in the mechanic arts to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure 1 of the annexed drawing is a full view of my cloth-presser attached to the stem ordinarily used by the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company. Fig. 2 is a view of same detached. Fig. 3 represents a full Fig. 4 Fig. 5 is a View as constructed for the holder. represents the same upside down.

side view. Fig. 6 is a side view. Fig. 7 is the same in the holder. Fig. 8 is the stem and bolder ordinarily used by the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company.

A is the spring that rests on and over the needle-hole. B is the portion that presses the cloth on the feeder and forms the guide.

In this improvement the part B is to perform the function of a guide for the edge of the material, and the operator is enabled to bring the edge of the goods being sewed directly under the needle, and the spring adapts itself to different thicknesses of material, and keeps it down against the table, thereby preventing the skipping of stitches.

Having described my invention, I Wish it understood that I make no claim to the improvements that I have used in my drawing to illustrate my invention; nor do I claim the Clemmons improvement, of which I have knowledge.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination of the guiding presser or holder B and the spring A, when constructed and operatin g substantially as herein described.

G. W. WELLS.

Witnesses WIL. RICHARDS, F. E. CANNON. 

